SEAN TARJOTO
TECHNOLOGY, ART & PUBLIC SPACE
2/21/02
Main questions the mid-term project should pose:
What can globalization do to our everyday lives that art can use
as evidence
for its purpose?
What is the role in everyday life that art should have?
What is the relationship between globalisation and our day-to-day
routines?
The project will have three intersecting elements:
globalisation <-> technology
art that frames technology as tools for ideas
technology as a process of globalisation
And primary underlying theme will be: "The Decline of Public Space."
As
public programs, parks, and infrastructures are increasingly riding on
credit debt
and expanding international transactional networks, certain kinds of
phenomena are appearing:
Privately-chartered educational institutions as superior to public
education
Private prisons as more cost-effective than tax-financed
Given that this is an apparent phenomenon, what does or can this do to
our
notions of public space and conceptions ourselves in those spaces?
Where can one trace the private, religious, "transitional (elevators,
buses,
trains)" spaces and their accompanying behaviors?
(
geocities.com/tarjoto)